POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[ChazzC]

You ought to take that nest down before things warm up. Make sure it's real cold, cause they're going to be angry. I'd soak the nest in gas out in a clear area, and lighting them up. Probably a whole lot safer to suffocate them with CO2, and then drown them through in a trash can. Then I'd burn them. Don't like them one bit, can you tell?

Cold and in the dead of night so you have the best chance of getting them all - you don’t want the strays coming back and being ****** off.

 

[Inferno]

FWIW, isopropyl is less flammable and will also kill them.
You could also get some one shot and soak the nest. It doesn't evaporate as fast and will soak into the fibers of the nest and kill anything inside. It's slower but it works.
I've never had the little bastards come back to a nest after spraying them with poison.

I'm a live and let live person but last Summer got stung for the first time in over 20 years. It renewed my hatred of flying bugs with daggers.

 

[IHinIN]

Made a spanner wrench for my new collet blocks. It’s 4140 PHT and the pin is a 5mm dowel.


Then, I used the hex collet block and my new 2” indexable endmill to cut some flats on my mill knee drill adapter. The flats are just to reduce weight and add a little style.

 

[dkemppai]

A little more work on the shafts. More fiddling around than actual work. Try to find a way to hold this thing and index it, without a dividing head. Real Pain. Had to make some spacer blocks with grooves in them. to be able to clamp the part in the vise.

But first, I stood it upright, and milled a square on the end, so I'd have something to index with. Kinda fiddly to set up, but worked OK.



Parts turned out OK. Welded the coupling to the other shaft, and turned it down to pretty it up. A bit like lipstick on a pig..


I know some of you have asked about a build thread for the crane. Maybe once it's done, I can post a 'time-lapse' photos of the build with some descriptions.

Here's a quick video of 'surface grinding' the spacer blocks with the SGA-1 belt grinder attachment. Handy for things where you want to hog metal of quickly.
View attachment VID_20240225_162939394.mp4

 

[Gaffer]

I'm making room for that big 'ol bandsaw. I took out the 5' long stainless steel sink - painful, but I'll replace it with a small 20" one. The Colchester, still under rebuilding, will go against the wall where the sink was. I had to patch the wall and made decent progress for a guy who sucks at drywall. I have to fix old holes and sins from years past. The band saw will go where the lathe is now. You can see my space problem in the photo. You can't see the CNC plasma table on wheels that I have to move out when working with the other equipment. One benefit, if you can call it, to this project is that I found a column of subterranean termites - F$#!k! - another project!. On a positive note, I used that bandsaw several times this weekend. As Secret Agent 86 would say, "and loving it!"



I rolled out the long-stored SB 9A, and after cleaning and lubing, I loaded some brazed carbide tooling and took some facing and skim cuts on the 932 bronze - beautiful! - but I realized I didn't have a boring bar small enough to make new worm gear bushings for the Colchester apron. I ordered an Ultra-Dex boring bar with a CCMT insert from Penn Tool and will tackle that job in a couple of weeks when I'm back in town.

 

[woodchucker]

You ought to take that nest down before things warm up. Make sure it's real cold, cause they're going to be angry. I'd soak the nest in gas out in a clear area, and lighting them up. Probably a whole lot safer to suffocate them with CO2, and then drown them through in a trash can. Then I'd burn them. Don't like them one bit, can you tell?

done already. That's why I opened it up. gave them the plastic bag treatment, then flattened them out.

 

[tq60]

Modified and repaired a LED desk light.

This is just a cheap light we drug home from an estate ale, but it is just handy.

It is a parallel arm design with maybe an 8 inch light unit.

Works perfect for the clock bench, but the plastic end of the light head broke and it would no longer stay together.

We found some aluminum same thickness, it was just under 1/2 diameter disk, found an end mill same size.

A bit of cutting and a new interface is there, works well now.

Could have rounded the corners, but that smaks of effort.

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[francist]

One benefit, if you can call it, to this project is that I found a column of subterranean termites - F$#!k! - another project!.

Oh wow, not good! I’ve heard about those but they don’t live this far North (last I heard, anyway) so haven’t actually encountered any. Crafty little beasts — they live in the moist ground and can’t tolerate being exposed for long so they build protective tubes to get to their food source (wood). Hope you can get rid of them, ie: “…Kill them dead! Kill them with chemical weapons! Eradicate them, crush their eggs, leave none to tell of it!….”

 

[Provincial]

You ought to take that nest down before things warm up. Make sure it's real cold, cause they're going to be angry. I'd soak the nest in gas out in a clear area, and lighting them up. Probably a whole lot safer to suffocate them with CO2, and then drown them though in a trash can. Then I'd burn them. Don't like them one bit, can you tell?

Totally by accident, we discovered a way to greatly reduce the Yellow Jacket population around our rural home. My wife transplanted a large Snowball bush near our house. A few years later, we started putting out the pheromone-baited traps, and the one on the Snowball filled up, while the other caught only a few. We have since planted three more Snowballs, and Yellow Jackets are quite rare. Before we started putting out the traps, eating outside during the late Summer was almost impossible because of the little buggers!

 

[WobblyHand]

Totally by accident, we discovered a way to greatly reduce the Yellow Jacket population around our rural home. My wife transplanted a large Snowball bush near our house. A few years later, we started putting out the pheromone-baited traps, and the one on the Snowball filled up, while the other caught only a few. We have since planted three more Snowballs, and Yellow Jackets are quite rare. Before we started putting out the traps, eating outside during the late Summer was almost impossible because of the little buggers!

The pheromone traps were for YJ's? Good to know. I don't mind bees and most bugs, but YJ'S are nasty vindictive things. As I recall they can sting repeatedly. I have some nesting in a shed that I periodically have to go after. The nest location has been saturated with insecticide but somehow they come back the next season. And yes, I've removed the nests. It sucks when you open the door and they come flying out, especially if you absent mindedly open the door. Reminds a person real quick. Had to run like the wind a few times.